Easy Peasy Puff Pastry

This recipe will make 2 different pastries, one with chocolate cream cheese and one with strawberry cream cheese. Yum!

Ingredients Needed :

• 1 box of Puff Pastry, thawed out about 15-20 mins, you still want the dough to be a little cold ( I used Pepperidge Farms, it has 2 sheets inside the box)
• 4-ounce block of cream cheese
• 1/2 teaspoon of vanilla extract
• 2 eggs, 1 will be used for egg wash only
• 1 tablespoon granulated sugar
• 1 Hershey chocolate bar
• 1/3 cup of strawberry jam
• Good music playing in the background

Chocolate/Strawberry Cream Cheese Pastries

• In a medium bowl, mix the cream cheese, sugar, 1 egg, and vanilla and set aside.

• You will want to lay out the puff pastry on a flat surface once it has thawed.

***Now is a perfect time to turn the oven on to 400 degrees!***

Cut the puff pastry dough into squares.
I want you to see, you do not need any cutting skills or measurements for this.
You can also use a regular knife or pizza dough cutter. I just happen to have a special Athletics Italian Heritage Night pizza cutter, because I’m cool like that. {wink, wink!}
I was able to cut 24 strips and left them on top of one another so that when I fill them, I can use the same size dough.

• Take one piece of the dough, I used the smaller looking strips of dough for the chocolate pastries.
• Put 2 squares of the chocolate. If you can fit more, go for it!
• Put a small tablespoon of cream cheese mixture.
• Lay the other piece of pastry on top.

• Using a fork, your going to press down to indent and close the pastry, kind of like a ravioli.

• You will do the exact same thing for the strawberry pastries. I used the bigger looking strips of dough for these to fit more inside. I was also able to just squeeze out the jam, super easy with the squeezable bottle!

I just want to pause for a minute and give myself a pat on the back for my exquisite baking terminology. I so greatly explained above that I used the “Bigger/Smaller looking pieces of dough.” Haha!
Once again, trust me, you do not need to know much about baking to make these delicious pastries!

I was able to make 12 of these. It was a pretty hot day, about 100 degrees outside when I made these.
When I was done putting the dough together, I put the cookie sheet in the fridge for about ten minutes for them to harden.
At this point, I am hoping that there are 6 strawberry ones and 6 chocolate ones. I kind of mixed them up. Oops!
But hey, it will be a great surprise when you bite into one!

• Right before you put these in the oven, beat together one egg and about 1 tablespoon of water.
• Then use a brush to coat the pastries.
• Put in the oven for 20 minutes at 400 degrees!

Now don’t these look purdy!!! They didn’t look so good going in the oven, a bit messy. You can’t go wrong with these! I told you to trust me! Easy Peasy!

the best part!

Take a bite and let me know what you think!